DIOECIA— DIANDUIxV. kSuIIx. 203 



culiarly woolly. Nothing surely can be better marked as a 

 species, either in the leaves or fructijicalion ; though I must 

 scruple to dissent in this opinion from Dr. Wahlenberg, w!;o 

 has studied the plants wild, and who cannot be supposed un- 

 acquainted with S. lapponum. Dr. Svvartz however did not 

 know it, and even Linnseus has, on more than one occasion, 

 confounded it with his arenaria, gathered by himself, at the 

 same time, in Lapland ; and likewise with our Stiiartiana. 



38. S. Stiiartiana. Small -leaved Shaggy Willow. 



Leaves nearly entire, ovate-lanceolate, acute; sluigoyabove; 

 densely silky, somewhat cottony, beneath. Style as long 

 as the almost sessile, woolly germen. Stigmas capillary, 

 deeply divided, the length of the style. 



S. Stuartiana. En^l. Bot.v.36. t. 2586. Comp. ed.4. 162. Rees's 



Cycl. n.S5. 

 S. arenaria masculina. Fl. Br. 1059. Engl. Bot. v. 26.p.l809. 

 S. lapponum. FL Dan. t. 1 058 ? 



In the Highlands of Scotland. 



In Breadalbane. Rev. Dr. Stuart. Near the upper end of the 

 burn at Finlarig. Mr. IV. Borrer. On Ben Lawers. Mr. D. 

 Turner. Received from Scotland by the late Mr.T. F. Forster, 

 in whose garden its distinctive characters remained, with very 

 little variation. 

 Shrub. July, August; probably also in the early Spring. 

 Bushy and copiously branched, 2 or 3 feet, or rather more, in 

 height ; the branches dark brown, downy when young and 

 leafy ; cottony or silky at the tops. Leaves scarcely more than 

 half the size of the foregoing or the following, and more lanceo- 

 late, rarely somewhat obovate, sharp-pointed, sometimes slightly 

 wavy, or toothed ; the upper surface greyish-green, shaggy or 

 silky, partly denudated by culture, always very even, not wrin- 

 kled or veiny j the under side whiter, and more densely silky, 

 partly cottony, with obscure veins, and a reddish midrib. Foot- 

 stalks downy, rather slender, with a slight projection of the 

 branch under each. <S/j/)2</fls I think entirely wanting. Catkins 

 from large lateral buds, short, ovate-oblong, on short stalks, 

 with 2 or 3 lanceolate, floral-leaves. Scales blackish, ovate, 

 densely bearded. Stam. 2, not much protruded. Germ, very 

 nearly,' if not quite, sessile, the length of the scale, ovate-oblong, 

 woolly. Style slender, as long as the germen. Stigmas divided 

 to the base, into capillary acute segments, hardly shorter than 

 the style itself, which, together with the extraordinary length of 

 that part, abundantly distinguish this species from all but the 

 following. Capsule ovate, cottony or woolly, retaining the style 

 and stigmas. 



